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Summary: Golding has written a masterpiece-phennomenol
Review: This is definetly one of Goldings best. He is extremely creative. Exciting and mind catching through the whole entire book. Some may find disturbing but it really makes you think
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Summary: Doubly fascinating.
Review: This book caught me pleasantly off-guard. For the first half of the story, I found myself interested in the story of young boys on an island trying to survive on their own. As the group gathers on the otherwise deserted island, they begin to form a basic society. Leaders quickly arise, and responsibilities are divided. However, things begin to degenerate as duties become neglected, a power struggle arises, and some of the society decide not to follow the rules. The book's symbolism soon becomes apparent, and the story of boys on an island becomes a commentary into society in general. Golding does a superior job of using symbolism effectively. The symbols are subtle and yet unmistakeable. I found myself staying up late one night finishing the last few pages, and I've found myself yearning to read it over and over.
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Summary: Keeps you interested from cover to cover
Review: William Golding's Lord of the Flies keeps your interest from the beginning to the end, from the crash to the rescue. Throughout the book, problems for the boys revolve around the concepts of man vs. man and man vs. nature more often than not. Most of the boys which have come from big cities are not used to killing their own food let alone fighting for their lives on a secluded island without any contact with the "outside world." After reading this novel Ralph, Piggy, Jack and the rest of the boys are not only characters in a book, but figures which become part of you life. Although the book deals with the lives of younger people, it is definitely a book for all ages.
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Summary: A great book with a hard to reach plot.
Review: Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies is a classic book, written by William Golding. It takes place about 50 years ago on a deserted island during the heart of World War II. It starts off when a group of boys are on a plane and they crash on a deserted island when they get shot down. They were escaping the fictional atomic bomb in England. As the boys all come together in a group, they find that there are no adults on the island and they elect a 12 year old boy, Ralph, as chief. The boys explore the island and find that there are animals and fruit to eat. After the boys settle in, they make huts on the beach which become extremely useful in the future. One day while the boys were holding a meeting, a young child, about 7, said that he saw a gigantic 'beast', as he called it. It was not taken seriously. After that meeting, the boys have two encounters with the beast and the little boy was never seen again. Jack Merridew, leader of the hunters, (a group that they formed to find food), soon leads his group to become extremely barbaric. After getting tired of listening to Ralph's orders, he forms his own tribe and by the end of the story, the remaining members of his group had gone to his tribe. One day while Jack's tribe was out hunting, they killed one of the pigs they saw and hung its head on a tree trunk as an offering to the beast. As Simon, one of the boys, looks at it, the pig's head, full of flies, begins to talk. The pig says that he is the Lord of the Flies and that they must be careful not to overstay their welcome on the island. Simon is so scared that he faints and gets carried off to sea. Later on, through a war, between Jack's tribe and Ralph himself, Ralph passes out from exhaustion. When he wakes up he's greeted by a naval officer on the beach who saw their signal fire and came to get them. Two main losses however were of Piggy, Ralph's best friend on the island, and Simon one of the friends to the younger kids. My favorite character in the book was Piggy. Piggy is an overweight, nearsighted little boy. He lives with his aunt because both his parents were killed when he was young. He is one of the first people on the island to be noticed by Ralph. Piggy also has asthma. Because of this and his lack of being active, he is often made fun of and not taken seriously at meetings. He is loyal to Ralph throughout the whole story until he gets killed at the end. Piggy at the beginning seems a little bit obnoxious. He acts like a 'mama's boy' who would not do anything without confirming it with an adult. He continuously asks Ralph if there are any adults on an island because they give Piggy a sense of security. The reader learns to feel bad for him however because he now has no family and everybody is treating him like dirt. The people that make fun of him though do get put through pain, later in the story. At the end of the story, Piggy is well respected by the reader and Ralph, no one else. Piggy has given a lot to the boys in the story like his glasses for starting fires and giving his thoughts regardless of what other people thought of him. Ralph really cares about Piggy because he was the most loyal person to him in the story. Piggy tries to follow Ralph's rules and go by what he says, but when the two of them are the only ones left that are not in Jack's tribe, Piggy treats Ralph strictly as a friend. If I had to rate this book on a scale of 1-10 I would give it a 9. The book had a remarkable story line, which pushes the reader to keep reading. The characters were completely different and it added a silent war to the story because each character's personality was completely different and was trying to override the other. Some parts, however, were very hard to understand and they required me to reread them. There was a lot of symbolism and figurative language in the story and made the plot very hard to find but when you did, the work was worthwhile.
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Summary: A good book with a not so good ending
Review: I thought William Golding's Lord of the flies was a great book. It had an original plot and was full of suspense and action. I would have rated it a 5 star book but the ending was terrible. At the climax of the book when Ralph is being hunted the author just decided to cut the story off. All in all I thought the book was pretty good
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Summary: wow!
Review: I think that the reason most people don't like the book is that they do not understand the fine symbolism. I mean, some people don't read between the lines, because they still think it is a "boys on an island" story. Let me tell you something right now: this story is about the fact that humanity isn't all that civilized. The theme I got from this story is, "Civilization is the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all civilization. The two are often interchangeable." Think on it. Then, if you don't agree, mail me and we'll talk it out.
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Summary: Excellent characterisaton
Review: The book speaks for it self its a greatly written book concerning fears and the elements of life. If somebody feels like sending me a more specific review i'm just happy
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Summary: A quite disturbing look into human nature.
Review: The island in the book can be a microcosm to the world. Despite the book itself being sad and a good read in a literal sense, it has much deeper implecations. Just think: in their tragedy, they resort to their most primal nature. We all share the evil of the "Lord of the Flies" within us. Golding has shown how easily it can expose itself.
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Summary: Innate Savagery
Review: Even though it's been years since I first encountered this novel, I still vividly recall the brave leadership of Ralph, the understanding innocence of Piggy, the thrill of the hunt, the smell of the pigs blood, and the intense primitive nature that takes dominion over the boys. The exploration of the various social interactions and the influence human nature has on them is intriguing and well delineated. However, the internal savagery that slowly and universally reveals itself amongst the characters proves to be the trues force which holds this novel high in my regard. Truly captivating and dangerously luring!
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Summary: IT'S NOT ABOUT BOYS ON A TROPICAL ISLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: The major misconception about this book is that it's about a bunch of little boys trapped on a tropical island. The book is one big sybolism. Why can't everyone see that? And talk about dualities! Piggy's glasses are his window to the civilized world, and YET they start the fire that is the cause of most savage conflicts! Golding's a genius. To those who say that the boys degenerated too quickly, would you rather read an 800 page book tracing their degeneration. And chaos comes more quickly to 9 and 10 year olds than older people. Most of the people in my H English 9 class who didn't enjoy it focused on the 'boys on an island' story, and failed to catch on when the army man said it was a game. Maybe the book is a bit bloody, but come on! These are savages, only skeletons of the civilized boys they once were. This book is spectacular! If you can be open-minded, and can get past 'boys on an island', you'll love this classic tale of human nature.
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